At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories (Paperback)

from xicanti

Kij Johnson is one of the best short fiction writers out there, as this collection demonstrates. It's rare for me to finish a piece by Johnson without experiencing some fundamental shift in the way I view the world. She has a keen eye for the details that make a story emotionally engaging as well...

from xiaomarlo

Some of these are 5-star stories, and some are 3-star, so I'm averaging it out. Johnson excels at world-building, and she can write in many different styles and voices. My favourites were The Horse Raiders, The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles, The Man Who Bridged the Mist, and At the Mouth of the...

from reading_fox

A long collection of very varied short stories, some of which are considerably longer than others. Again there is no particular theme to these stories, which are not just varied in topic, but also in writing style. This works better for some stories than others. It is always difficult to review s...

from btuckertx

I thoroughly enjoyed the collection of short stories in At The Mouth Of The River Of Bees by Kij Johnson. Standouts were Fox Magic and The Man Who Bridged The Mist. Once the editing is tightened up for publication (spelling/grammar/syntax got a little loose in the last third of the collection), I...

from GingerbreadMan

It's really only closing the book I realize that this very disparate collection of short stories actually does have a theme carrying through it. All the stories, somewhat surprising, deal with the relationship between human and animal. This might seem a tad lightweight, but mostly Johnson uses he...